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Wet Boundary: How the Flint River Defined Atlanta
2021 marks an important anniversary for Atlanta. It’s been two hundred years since the 1821 Treaty of Indian Springs in which the Creek Na..
Streets: Their History, Importance, and Regulation
Presented by Paul Knight, DCAI President, at the Atlanta City Studio on November 1, 2016, to a packed room full of urbanists. Covers stree..
Master Street Plans
There is no great city in the world that isn’t made up of a highly connected network of streets. In fact this is the first thing that all ..
A Two-Sentence Subdivision Ordinance
In 1926 the United States created a legal precedent for zoning our cities, through the decision in the Euclid v. Ambler case. This was fur..
Applying the Lessons of History to Future Development
This presentation was delivered at the 2016 National Planning Conference in Phoenix, AZ, by Paul Knight and David Green on April 4.
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Diagramming the Land Ordinance of 1785
Exploring the dimensional DNA of the ordinance that subdivided two-thirds of the United States.
Street Legal
David Green at TEDxPeachtree
Open Space: Good or Bad for Cities?
In the middle of the 19th century cities were expanding, and in most cases they were doing this in the absence of sensible ways to address..